Meroë
Sign in to saveMeroë was an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile about 6 km north-east of the Kabushiya station near Shendi, Sudan, approximately 200 km north-east of Khartoum. Near the site is a group of villages called Bagrawiyah (). This city was the capital of the Kingdom of Kush for several centuries from around 590 BC, until its collapse in the 4th century AD. The Kushitic Kingdom of Meroë gave its name to the "Island of Meroë", which was the modern region of Butana, a region bounded by the Nile (from the Atbarah River to Khartoum), the Atbarah and the Blue Nile.
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Meroë was an ancient city in Sudan that served as the capital of the Kingdom of Kush from around 590 BC until the 4th century AD. It is historically significant because it was a major center of a major ancient African kingdom and gave its name to an entire region of northeastern Africa.
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17 sectionsContents
- History
- First Meroitic Period (542–315 BC)
- Second Meroitic Period (3rd century BC)
- Third Meroitic Period (270 BC{{snd}}1st century AD)
- Conflict with Rome
- Fourth Meroitic Period (1st century{{snd}}4th century AD)
- Meroë in Jewish legend
- Civilization
- Language
- Archaeology
- World Heritage listing
- See also
- References
- Notes
- Citations
- Further reading
- External links
Meroë was an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile about 6 km north-east of the Kabushiya station near Shendi, Sudan, approximately 200 km north-east of Khartoum. Near the site is a group of villages called Bagrawiyah (). This city was the capital of the Kingdom of Kush for several centuries from around 590 BC, until its collapse in the 4th century AD. The Kushitic Kingdom of Meroë gave its name to the "Island of Meroë", which was the modern region of Butana, a region bounded by the Nile (from the Atbarah River to Khartoum), the Atbarah and the Blue Nile.
The city of Meroë was on the edge of Butana. There were two other Meroitic cities in Butana: Musawwarat es-Sufra and Naqa. The first of these sites was given the name Meroë by the Persian king Cambyses, in honor of his sister who was called by that name. The city had originally borne the ancient appellation Saba, named after the country's original founder. The eponym Saba, or Seba, is named for one of the sons of Cush (see Genesis 10:7). The presence of numerous Meroitic sites within the western Butana region and on the border of Butana proper is significant to the settlement of the core of the developed region. The orientation of these settlements exhibit the exercise of state power over subsistence production.